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Old March 2nd 07, 04:22 AM posted to sci.astro,sci.physics
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Default New 'superlens' will revolutionize astronomy, medicine, biology.

In article SaJFh.22900$PD2.10812@attbi_s22,
Sam Wormley wrote:

Robert Clark wrote:


If this succeeds then telescope apertures will only need to be a
fraction of their current size to achieve the same resolution. This
will be fundamentally important for space based telescopes.


Bull****--show us the calculations!


Yup. Diffraction limiting has to be taken into account somewhere.

Plus, telescopes are "big" for other reasons than resolution -- light
gathering is something that only big apertures can do.

Isaac